r/baseball • u/_HGCenty Seattle Mariners • 11h ago

Players Only Dodgers' Alex Call blasts controversial Sydney Sweeney ad

https://www.thebiglead.com/dodgers-alex-call-sydney-sweeney-novig-commercial-soft-porn/

Since the last post about this got deleted because it contained a X screenshot, hopefully this one actually stays for comment.

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u/silvermoonhowler Milwaukee Brewers 10h ago

Seriously

How many of those things do we really need?

Between the sports betting and trading stuff, we now have the following for the major players:

  • DraftKings
  • FanDuel
  • PrizePicks
  • Underdog
  • Kalshi
  • Polymarket
  • Novig

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u/mulder00 Boston Red Sox 9h ago

They're not just ads, they're part of the broadcast and pre-game shows, too.

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u/Artistic_Bit6866 Milwaukee Brewers 8h ago

Yeah this is what pisses me off most. Impossible to stay away from them. I’ve never gambled on sports and probably never will, but I can’t imagine how shitty it must be to be inundated by this crap if you’re battling an addiction.

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u/xavier19691 8h ago

Exactly…

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u/VarRalapo Toronto Blue Jays 7h ago

Imagine if you substituted it for any other dangerous legal vice like smoking or drinking instead. I am very confident gambling ads will be gone in the next decade.

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u/darwinpolice Seattle Mariners 6h ago

That's the worst shit. I tend to get up and walk around during commercial breaks no matter what I'm watching (thanks, ADHD!) so I don't see as many commercials as a lot of people do, but the mid-broadcast ads read by the announcers are INFURIATING.

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u/ScalabrineIsGod Chicago White Sox 4h ago

It kind of feels like a house of cards. MLB and the other leagues are in too heavy. In a short time it’s sunk its teeth into everything.

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u/BildingInspecter 8h ago

Doesn't espn have their own betting app too? Or did that get absorbed into another one?

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u/darwinpolice Seattle Mariners 7h ago

They used to have ESPN Bet, which I think was a sports book they bought from Barstool? It didn't catch on and they canned it, though. Which seems kind of wild, right? How does a highly addictive product constantly advertised by a company with Disney's reach fail?

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u/Universal_Contrarian Atlanta Braves 9h ago

Bro, it’s just investing bro

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u/The_Void_Reaver San Diego Padres 7h ago

Hilariously that list doesn't even include the site that the Sidney Sweeney ad is for. It's just disgusting.

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u/Inti-Illimani Milwaukee Brewers 9h ago

Jesús fucking Christ

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u/silvermoonhowler Milwaukee Brewers 9h ago

Haha, as a fellow Brewers fan, I see what you did there

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u/Inti-Illimani Milwaukee Brewers 5h ago

I actually don’t know what I did haha I was being genuine. What did you think I meant?

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u/darwinpolice Seattle Mariners 7h ago

And Bet 365, too. Good lord, we're so cooked.

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u/AnotherUnfunnyName 6h ago

Not getting better in the current political climate given who sits on the board of both Kalshi and Polymarket.

There is also canadian "theScore Bet", owned by major gambling company Penn Entertainment who also owned Barstool for some time, which took over the rest of the userbase of the Barstool/ESPN thing after they took on Draftkings as a sponsor.

In April 2013, Major League Baseball invested in DraftKings, becoming the first US professional sports league to invest in daily fantasy sports. The investment was not disclosed at the time

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u/WoundedSacrifice Major League Baseball 1h ago

Huh. I’ve heard of Bet MGM and Bet 365, but I haven’t heard of Novig.

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u/PPvsFC_ Atlanta Braves 53m ago

ngl, I thought novig was a GLP-1 medication